Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know a gentleman who owns about a thousand dollars worth of Marantz amplifiers and KLH loudspeakers in a monaural (non-stereo) hook-up. This system's faithfulness to the qualities of the original sounds played on it ranks it ranks it among the highest of "fi's". We also know people with $150 "stereos" which do a good job of reproducing stereo width and direction...
...last week in an exchange of letters to the New York Times. Replying to a writer who had argued that the U.S. ought to forget about Berlin and concentrate on broad social reforms as a way of winning the cold war, New York University's Philosophy Professor Sidney Hook said: "To imply that we can contain Communism by a more dynamic policy of social reform is like arguing that if England had abolished its slums and liberated its colonies, Hitler would have been halted in his campaigns of aggression. Reforms and a dynamic policy by all means. But unless...
Dday. H-hour. A landing craft touched and stopped off Pointe du Hoc between Utah and Omaha beaches. Out jumped a combat unit, including three grizzly-looking soldiers who crossed 150 yds. of pebble beach through a heavy traffic of westbound bullets, fired a grappling hook to the top of a cliff and began to scale it. "We'll never make it," said one of them. "Three old ladies with brooms could keep us off this cliff...
Master Strategist. A master strategist of base running (he perfected the "fallaway" or "hook" slide), Cobb made up for a lack of natural speed with daring, guile and meanness. His favorite tricks included kicking the ball out of a fielder's hand or permitting a throw to hit him. "I believe the base paths belong to the base runner," Cobb said-and he did not hesitate to spike infielders who tried to block his way to the bag. After he slashed Philadelphia's famed Frank ("Home Run") Baker on the arm in 1909, Cobb received 13 threatening letters...
Your Virgil Partch cartoon amused me greatly, because it is not so far from the truth. I watched my mother hook up her electric blanket to the overhead light in one of the permanent tents at Yosemite National Park last summer with great howls of derision, and found at 3 a.m. that the extra warmth was quite welcome...